Influence of spatiotemporal scale on the interpretation of paleocommunity structure: Lateral variation in the Imperial Formation of California

Palaios

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 630-641

  Redman, Cory M ^a,b   Leighton, Lindsey R ^c   Schellenberg, Stephen A ^c   Gale, Christopher N ^c   Nielsen, Jennifer L ^b   Dressler, Donald L ^b   Klinger, Mary K ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PALEOECOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY; WATER DEPTH;

CALIFORNIA; IMPERIAL COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BIVALVIA;

EID: 36348946293     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2110/palo.2006.p06-044r     Document Type: Article

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